BIOGRAPHICAL - 325 of whom is Arden C., who was born Jan. 1, 1874, and is now engaged in agricultural pursuits in this county. The father first beheld the light of day on the old Wilkinson homestead in this county, April 22, 1844, and the mother was born in Peru, Miami county, Indiana, Feb. 18, 1848. Charles W. Wilkinson was reared in his native county and his educational advantages were those of her common schools. He was a gallant soldier in the Civil war, enlist-. ing in May, 1864, before he had attained his legal majority, as a private in Company I, One Hundred and Thirtieth Ohio infantry, one of the hundred-day regiments, with which he remained, until the close of enlistment, participating in the memorable Virginia campaign of that year, which finally culminated in the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. Reared to the sturdy discipline of farm life, he was a successful follower of agricultural pursuits during his entire career. In his political views he was a loyal member of the Republican party from the time he attained his majority, his first presidential vote having been cast in the autumn of 1868 for a former comrade-in-arms—Gen. U. S. Grant—and he and his wife were for many years affiliated with the Congregational church, in the affairs of which both were very active. On April 29, 1904. just seven days after the sixtieth anniversary of his birth, he was summoned to the life eternal, leaving to posterity a clean record as an agriculturist, as a citizen, and as a man, which will forever remain a precious heritage to those whom he left behind. Dr. Wilkinson secured his elementary educational training in the public schools of his native county and, in the spring of 1898, was graduated in the Toledo High School. His professional training was acquired in the Toledo Medical College, where he was graduated and received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1902. immediately after which he established himself in the practice of his profession in Toledo, where he has since been located. His patients are to be found in all portions of the city and county, and in the seven years that have elapsed since he commenced to •practice he has steadily grown in his profession. and is regarded as one of the progressive practitioners of Lucas county. His patrons have the utmost faith in his ability and integrity and his brother physicians and surgeons hold him in high regard. both for his personality and his professional ability. He holds membership in both the Toledo and Lucas County Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Association, and also belongs to Rubicon Lodge. No. 187. Free & Accepted Masons : Toledo Lodge. No. 402. Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the National Union. In his political affiliations he is a Republican and in his religious convictions he clings to the faith of his honored parents. being a member of the Congregational church. Philip S. Rieg, M. D., one of the leading and highly successful members of the medical profession in Toledo, was horn in Monroe, Mich., Dec. 18. 1866. His father, John Rieg, one of the early settlers of Monroe county, Michigan. first beheld the light of day in• Germany, in 1820. There he was educated and reared to manhood and, in 1844, he came to this country and took up his residence in 326 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY Monroe, Mich., where for some twenty-four years he was successfully engaged in the mercantile business. He and his good wife, Frances (Farsching) Rieg, who was born in Germany in 1822, were the parents of twelve children, of whom only five are now living. In 1868, when just in the prime of life and when the immediate subject of this sketch was but two years of age, the father passed away. Some years subsequent to his death his widow was united in marriage to John Steck, and of this union two children were horn, of whom both survive. Mr. Steck was for many years an active member of the Democratic party, and in his religious belief was a Roman Catholic. He is now deceased, and his widow survives, though she has attained to the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Left fatherless at the age of two years, Dr. Rieg was obliged to depend upon his own resources, and thus at an early age he acquired the lesson of self-dependence. His earliest educational advantages were those of a parochial school in his native city, and when thirteen years old he came to Toledo, where he learned the barber's trade and attended night school. He pursued the above trade for some years and then entered the employ of Ransom & Randolph, dealers in surgical instruments, in the capacity of traveling salesman. Later, he began his preparations for the practice of medicine in the offices of Drs. Hellman & Hassencamp, of Toledo, after which he continued his studies in the Toledo Medical College. graduating in that institution in 1894, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He immediately established offices in Toledo, where he has since been engaged in the work of his profession, with the exception of a few years spent in the pursuit of post-graduate work in New York City and Berlin, Germany. He enjoys an extensive and profitable patronage, which is the best evidence of his proficiency in his chosen profession. His life has been one of honest, persistent effort, and he is a self-made man in every sense of that term. His professional career has been characterized bv a marked success, and he is held in high esteem by his medical brethren, his patrons, and by all with whom he is brought into contact, as a capable. thorough and high-minded practitioner. On Oct. 10, 1900, he was happily united in holy wedlock to Miss Frances Weick, an accomplished young woman, who is a native of Toledo and a daughter of Leon and Frances Weick, of that city. Dr. and Mrs. Rieg have no children. He is a member of the American and the Ohio State Medical associations, and also belongs to the United States Military Association, having served as a surgeon in the United States navy, in which he is now past-assistant surgeon : and he is also senior lieutenant in the naval militia of the Ohio National Guard. He holds membership in the Roman Catholic church, and in his political proclivities is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Republican party. Fraternally, the Doctor is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Columbus and the Order of the Moose. Eugene D. Scheble, D. D. S., who is engaged in the practice of dentistry in the city of Toledo, is one of the oldest members of the dental fraternity in Lucas county, his professional life there cover- BIOGRAPHICAL - 327 ing a period of about thirty-six years, and well is he entitled to consideration in this historical compilation. He is of Swiss descent and first beheld the light of day in Richmondale, Ross county, Ohio, March 8, 1853. As a youth, he acquired his rudimentary educational training in the common schools of Delaware county, Ohio, and, in 1871, came to Toledo, where he continued his studies in the public schools. He commenced the work of preparing himself for his chosen profession in the Philadelphia Dental College, where he pursued the prescribed course of study and was graduated as a member of the class of 1874, receiving his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery and coming forth admirablv qualified for the exacting work of his chosen vocation. In 1874, he established his headquarters in the city of Toledo, where he has since been located, and has built up an extensive and lucrative practice. He has demonstrated his professional skill in a manner that has won the admiration of his brother practitioners and the respect and confidence of the general public. He keeps in close touch with the progress of his profession. being generally recognized as one of the progressive dentists of the county, and he is thorough and conscientious in his methods of treatment, which inspires the confidence and esteem of his numerous patrons. Dr. Scheble is a member of the Ohio State and Lucas County Dental societies and the National Union, and socially he has membership in the Toledo Club and the Country Club. He is a director and stockholder in the Gendron Wheel Company, a stockholder in the Second National Bank and also in the Ohio State Savings Bank. In his political proclivities he is a stanch advocate of the Republican party, and, though he has never cherished aspirations for a public career, he takes a lively interest in civic affairs, realizing that whatever is of benefit to the entire community is also to his own private interest. In his religious convictions, Dr. Scheble is an attendant of the church of the Unitarian faith. On Christmas day, in the year 1875. was solemnized his marriage to Miss Jenet L. Vogel, a native of Sidney, Ohio, and a daughter of George and Lucy M. (Rohr) Vogel. of Toledo, who have been married for sixty years. and were among the early settlers in this commonwealth. 'Mr. Vogel and wife took up their residence in Toledo, in 1873, where for many years he was a prominent figure in commercial circles. though he is now living retired. Dr. and Mrs. Scheble have no children. Charles A. Faber, M. D., of Toledo, formerlv physician at the Toledo State Hospital, and inventor of the Faber Self-Filling Fountain Pen, was born near Bryan. Williams county, Ohio, May 12, 1864. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Faber. a native of Germany, was educated, reared and married in the "Vaterland," and in early manhood came to Ohio. locating first in Portage county and later in Williams. where he was numbered among the early settlers, and where he reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest, his death occurring there, in 1882. His good wife, Elizabeth Faber, passed to her reward in Germany, the land of her nativity. Both were loyal members of the German Lutheran church and both lived exemplary, 328 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY Christian lives, commanding in fullest measure the respect and esteem of all who knew them. Dr. Faber's maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Fehleman, were natives of Switzerland, where the former passed away. In her later years, Mrs. Fehleman emigrated to this country and settled in Williams county, Ohio, where she spent the remainder of her life. The parents of Dr. Faber were Jacob Faber, Jr., and Mary (Fehleman) Faber, the former of whom was born in Buchsweiller, in lower Alsace, Germany. and the latter in Switzerland. The father received the excellent educational training required in the schools of Germany, and at an early age learned the baker's trade, which he followed during the later years of his residence in his native land. He came to Ohio in early manhood and for many years operated a farm in Williams county. He was a Democrat in his political views and a member of the German Reformed church, as was his wife. He met death in a runaway accident, in 1871, and his beloved Wife survived him eleven years, passing away in 1882. Dr. Faber secured his elementary education in the district schools of Williams county, Ohio, and was graduated in the high school at Stryker, in that county. He then attended the Fayette Normal University, at Fayette, Fulton county, Ohio, after which he taught school for three years. But his aspirations were in a different direction, and as soon as he was able to do so he entered the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine in that celebrated institution in the spring of 1890, when in hiS twenty-sixth year. He then secured an appointment as physician in the Toledo State Hospital, where he remained for two and a half years, at the expiration of which he established himself in the work of his profession in the city of Toledo, where he has been an exceptionally busy practitioner ever since. As a physician and surgeon he has a high standing, being widely known as one of the progressive practitioners of the city and county, and enjoying the confidence and good will of his fellow physicians. his many patients, and all others with whom he has dealings. Dr. Faber has been engaged in other lines of endeavor than that of the practice of medicine. In 1903, he invented the celebrated Faber Self-Filling Fountain Pen, large numbers of which he sells in this country and in various nations of the other four continents, and upon which he holds patent-rights in the United States, England, Germany, France and Japan. He has accumulated a considerable property and is the proprietor of a lumber yard in Fayette, Ohio. He holds membership in the Toledo and Lucas County Academy of Medicine and the American and Ohio State Medical associations. In politics, he exercises the right of suffrage without any regard to partisanship or party affiliations, and. though not an officeseeker in the usual meaning of that term. he was for three years the incumbent of the office of coroner. In his religious convictions he is a Baptist. On June 8, 1892, Dr. Faber led to the altar of matrimony Miss Cora C. Vosbourgh, daughter of Leonard H. and Lucy (Root) Vosbourgh, of Lenawee county, Michigan, who subsequently removed to Portland, Ore., where Mrs. Faber's mother passed to the BIOGRAPHICAL - 329 life eternal. Of the happy union of Dr. Faber and wife have been born two children : namely. Lucie Marie and Carl Vosbourgh. Addison D. Hobart, M. D., one of the prominent and influential members of the medical profession in Toledo, was born on a farm in Nelson township. Portage county, Ohio, Sept. 19, 1859. He is the son of John Sullivan Hobart and Aurilla C. (Alton, nee Netterfield) Hobart, the former of whom was born in Coos county, New Hampshire, Nov. 25, 1806, and the latter with her parents came to Ohio in 1836 and located in Williams county. The father died Nov. 2, 1885, on the old homestead in Nelson township, Portage county, Ohio, and the mother passed away April 3, 1907, at the age of eighty-three years. During the last fifteen years of her life she lived with her son, Dr. Hobart. The first Hobart in America was Edmund Hobart, who migrated from Norfolk, England, and settled at Charlestown, -Mass., in 1633. His son, Peter (born in 1604 in Norfolk county, England), was a teacher and preacher in Suffolk county, England, and came to Charlestown, Mass., to join his father in 1635. In the same year he moved from that place and founded the town of Hingham, Mass., naming it in honor of his birthplace in England. He built a Congregational church and was its pastor for forty years.. He had four sons—John, Gershan, Japhet and Nehemiah—the last three named of whom graduated at Harvard in 1667, and were Congregational preachers. From that early beginning the Hobarts were prominent in the affairs of the New England colonies, and there were twenty bearing the family name who served as soldiers in the Revolutionary war. The paternal great-grandfather of Dr. Hobart was one of these patriots. His name was William Hobart, and his son, Benjamin (grandfather of Dr. Hobart), came by ox team to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1814, and settled on a farm. John Sullivan Hobart, the father of our subject, was at that time but eight years of age. He grew to maturity in his Buckeye home, and upon reaching manhood he cleared a farm in Nelson township, in the adjoining county. of Portage, and there reared a family of ten sons and two daughters. Four of the sons served as soldiers in the Civil war. The surviving members of the family are as follows : Marcene, who is a merchant at Pemberville, Ohio ; Freedom E., who is a druggist at Gillman, Ill. ; Marcellus .W., engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Fremont, Ohio ; Dr. Addison D., who is the immediate subject of this review ; John S., Jr., of Toledo, formerly a newspaper man of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Mary, who is the wife of M. W. Seibert, of Fremont, Ohio. Allison L., twin brother of Dr. Hobart, was a graduate of the Cincinnati Medical College, but died in February, 1891, at the age of thirty-one. William Hobart. the great-grandfather of Dr. Hobart, had a brother named Roswell, who was a farmer in the Columbiana valley, Coos county, New Hampshire, and whose son, Addison W., teacher for several years in Long Branch, N. J., was the father of Vice-President Garrett Hobart, who was elected on the ticket with William McKinley in 1896. Dr. Addison D. Hobart received his early scholastic training in the district schools of .his native township and subsequently 330 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY spent some time in Western Reserve Seminary, at West Farmington, Ohio, and then completed his literary education at Oberlin College. In 1882 he began teaching school and followed that occupation for three years, in Portage and Lake counties. He then began the study of medicine in Cleveland, in what was then known as Western Reserve Medical College, and he finished his course in Toledo Medical College, graduating with the class of 1892, since which time he has followed his profession in Toledo. In 1893 he opened an office on Oak street, in East Toledo, and has since been located in that vicinity, residing at 500 Oak street, corner of Oak and Greenwood, in a commodious house which he erected in 1896. In addition to his general practice he has for several years conducted a drug store, opposite his residence. Dr. Hobart is a Republican in his party affiliations, and in 1903 was elected a member of the Toledo city council, in which position he served two years, and he has also served in several positions in the city in his professional capacity. He was one of the members of the city council who strongly advocated the pure water system for. Toledo, being chairman of the Finance Committee at the time the bonds were issued for building the present filtration plant. He fostered and promoted the ordinance providing for a "sane Fourth of July," which ordinance was passed Jan. 4, 1904, and in which movement Toledo claims to be the pioneer city in the United States. He was ably supported by Ulysses G. Denman, then city solicitor, but now attorney-general of the State of Ohio, who drafted the ordinance ; by the late Samuel M. Jones, then mayor of the city, and by R. A. Bartley, who was not a member of the council. At the time of his membership in the city council, Dr. Hobart served as a delegate from Toledo to the League of American Municipalities that met at Baltimore, in 1903, and he was instrumental in making Toledo the meeting place of the league in 1905. His religious faith is expressed by membership in the Memorial Baptist Church, and professionally he is enrolled among the members of the Lucas County and the Ohio State Medical associations. On Aug. 15, 1882, Dr. Hobart was united in marriage to Miss Melva S. Hatch, daughter of Sylvester J. and Aseneth Hatch, of West Farmingtoti, Trumbull county, Ohio, a graduate of Western Reserve Seminary and a teacher for several years in the public schools. Three children were the issue of this union, of whom more specific mention is as follows : Addison Clay died in infancy ; Shirlie M., born Jan. 15, 1887, is a graduate of the Toledo High School and of the Toledo Normal School, and is now a teacher in the public schools of the city Addison Duane, born Sept. 13, 1889, is a graduate of the Toledo High School and of the Toledo School of Pharmacy, and is now the manager of the Hobart Pharmacy, at the corner of Oak and Greenwood streets. The wife and mother passed away Nov. 9, 1906, and the children reside at home with the father. George E. Lorenz, president of the George Lorenz Companv, Incorporated,. manufacturing and merchant perfumers, with offices at 103 and 109 East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, New BIOGRAPHICAL - 331 York, is a native of the State of Ohio, and still claims Toledo as his home. He was born in Germantown, Montgomery county, Jan. 1, 1845, the son of Peter and Sophia (Billmire) Lorenz. His father, of old Huguenot stock, claimed nativity in Strasburg, now a part of the German empire, but at the time of his birth a French province, and the mother was born at Harper's Ferry, Va. The former was a designer and pattern-maker in his native land, and earned a goodly competence in the mills. He also served for a time in the French cavalry, and his father (the grandfather of George Lorenz) was a brigade commander in the French army for a term, with headquarters at Strasburg. After coming to the United States, the father. Peter Lorenz, was married at Harper's Ferry, and during his residence in this country lived retired from active participation in business. Both parents are now deceased, the father having passed away in 1876, and the mother, in 1907, at Germantown, Ohio, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years. Seyen children were born to them, and two sons and as many daughters now survive. George E. Lorenz, with whom this memoir is more directly concerned, finished the scholastic courses of the Germantown schools and then matriculated in the State Normal School, at Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio. After graduation at that institution, he entered the University of Michigan, with the class of 1867, but, owing to a desire to get into business, he never completed the classical and scientific course he had mapped out for himself. The manufacture of perfumes has been his life work, although for a time he' was interested in the deyelopment of the oil industry-, and he was one of the organizers of the Crystal Refinery, now the plant of the Sun Oil Company, of Toledo. Starting in on a yery small scale in Toledo, as early as 1864, Mr. Lorenz, by his ability and thorough scientific knowledge of his industry, has built up a business second to none in this country or abroad. The plant remained in Toledo until 1908, and in that year it was determined that, in order to get in better touch with the large foreign and eastern. trade which the companv had developed, it was essential that the manufacturing establishment have an Eastern location. Accordingly, New York was selected, and the plant was moved to its present location, at 103-109 East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street. For many years Mr. Lorenz managed the business himself, but more latterly he has organized a stock company, now incorporated under the laws of New York, and as president he holds the larger portion of the stock. During the years 1903 and .1904, he also was the incumbent of the position of president of the Manufacturing Perfumers' Association of the United States. and an active member of the American Society of Microscopists. The high character of the products which Mr. Lorenz' company manufactures can possibly best be gleaned from a glance at its record, in the recent World's Expositions. In 1876, at the Philadelphia Centennial, the company was awarded the Universal Medal. Two years later, at the Paris Exposition, in competition with the best foreign and American products, Mr. Lorenz was granted the first and only medal that had ever been .awarded an American perfumer by a foreign government. Eleven years 332 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY later, at the Paris Exposition of 1889, again the company was successful in gaining the highest award. As a recognition of his stand- ing among the manufacturers of his own line. Mr. Lorenz was chosen, in 1893, as the expert to judge of the perfumes exhibited at the Chicago world's fair of that year. The latest honor to come to the company was, in 1900, when Mr. Lorenz was appointed by the French government to serve on the International Jury, and his perfumes were placed "Hors Concours." or beyond competition, probably the highest honor that could he awarded. In his political affiliations, Mr. Lorenz has been a stanch and ardent adherent of the principles of the Democratic party. and has been the incumbent of numerous offices as the choice of his party. Prior to 1886, he was one of the representatives of the Seventh ward in the city council of Toledo, for two terms, comprising four years. Subsequently, he received the nomination of his party for member of the State legislature, but his diversified business interests compelled him to refuse the nomination. When Grover Cleveland was President of the United States, in 1886, he appointed Mr. Lorenz as postmaster at Toledo, and he continued to fill that position for his term of four years, the ensuing Republican administration appointing his successor, in 1890. His popularity with his fellow citizens is well evidenced in the sweeping majorities with which he carried his ward, always before a Republican stronghold, when he was elected to the city council. In educational matters he served some time as trustee of the Miami Children's Home and as treasurer of the Toledo branch of the Chicago University Extension. On Sept. 20. 1866, Mr. Lorenz was united in marriage to Miss Martha Jane Phillips, at Lebanon, Ohio, where Mrs. Lorenz was born and reared. One daughter, now the wife of Arthur Baker, of 1803 Madison avenue, was born to bless this union. Mrs. Baker is a graduate of the Toledo High School and Vassar College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz haye a beautiful home at 1903 Madison avenue, at the corner of Nineteenth street, one of the finest residence sections of the city. Although the removal of Mr. Lorenz's plant necessitates his pres- ence in. New York some six months of the year, he still claims Toledo as his home. George C. Pickard, president and general manager of the Maumee Vallev Baking Company, was born in Monroe county, Michigan. Jan. 29, 1861, the second in a family of ten children born to William and Sarah (Smith) Pickard, the former a native of England and the latter of the State of New York. Of the children referred to. Marv, now Mrs. Dohm. lives in Monroe county, Michigan ; George C. is the subject of this sketch : Mrs. Ella Laska is deceased ; Alfred and Albert. twins, live at Temperance, Monroe county. Michigan : Mrs. Orion Bibb and Mrs. Frank Hoover both live in Monroe county, Michigan ; Oliver 0. resides in Washington township. Lucas county, Ohio, on a farm belonging to the subject of this sketch ; Charles W. lives in Washington township, Lucas county, Ohio, and Orion B. resides in Monroe county, Michigan. All were born and educated in Monroe county. George C. Pickard lived at home with his parents, helping his father on the farm and BIOGRAPHICAL - 333 attending the district schools in the winter seasons, until he attained to his majority, when he began farming for himself. He was extensively engaged in the dairy business. having at one time a herd of 100 milch cows, and sold his milk in Toledo, the greater part of it at retail to a large list of customers. The farm he at first occupied, after becoming of age, stood exactly upon the State line between Michigan and Ohio, but after a few years he sold that place and bought a farm in Washington township, Lucas county, Ohio, where he continued his farming and dairying until about 1898, when failing health made it advisable for him to seek some other line of employment. For a year he continued to reside on the farm, driying into Toledo every day to attend to his business, and, in 1899, he moved to the city. He learned the baking business and was one of the organizers of the Maumee Valley Baking Company, in which he owns a majority of the shares of stock and holds the position of president, treasurer and general manager. The bakery is located at 918 Cherry and 712 Champlain streets, employs about forty people and has something like twenty horses for the operation of its delivery wagons. Mr. Pickard still owns two farms—one of 160 acres in Washington township. Lucas county, and one of eighty acres in Monroe county, Michigan. Both these are rented to his brother. Charles W., who is extensively engaged in the milk business, keeping a herd of sixty-five cows and selling the milk in Toledo. The baking company, of which Mr. Pickard is the executive head, owns its own factory and retail store on Cherry street, and its large barns at 642 State street. It is recognized as one of the stable business concerns of the city, and Mr. Pickard has personally a high standing as a business man of sound judgment. great sagacity and strict integritv. In his political views he is a firm believer in the principles for which the Republican party stands sponsor, but he is not particularly active in campaign work. He belongs to no church, though he has contributed to the support of all the churches in West Toledo. where he resides. at 960 Sylvania avenue. On March 14, 1883, Mr. Pickard married Miss Minnie L., daughter of John F. and Angeline Reecamper, of Toledo, where she was horn and educated, though thev were married in Washington township. Mrs. Pickard's parents. both of whom are now deceased, were natives of Germany. Abner B. Cole was born at Plymouth. Mass., April 25, 1831, and at an early age accompanied his parents to Livermore, Me., where he continued to reside until 1855. He then entered the employ of the Taunton, New Bedford & Boston railroad, and for several years seryed as a railwav conductor between these cities. In 1858, he married Miss Julia P. Macomber, of Taunton, Mass., and, in 1860, removed with his family to St. Francis, Minn. The following year he enlisted in the Second Minnesota battery, Capt. William A. Hotchkiss commanding, for service in the Union army during the Civil war. This battery took part in the siege of Corinth, Miss. was in the campaign against Bragg in Kentucky and Tennessee ; received great praise for its excellent work at the battle of Perryyille ; won fresh laurels at the battle of Stone's River participated 334 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY in the Tullahoma campaign ; "three successive times it prevented the enemy from forming" at Chickamauga ; was at the battle of Missionary Ridge ; was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign of 1864 ; went with Gen. George H. Thomas to Tennessee after the fall of Atlanta, and rendered yaliant service in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, remaining- in seryice until August, 1865, when it was mustered out at Fort Snelling, Minn. Altogether, Mr. Cole was in twenty-two battles. After receiving his honorable discharge he remoyed with his family to Toledo, where he continued to reside until his death, Dec. 17, 1898, at his home, 1419 Broadway. He founded and for thirty years successfully conducted the business now operated by his son under the name of A. B. Cole Sons Co., trucking, moying and storage, at 1425-1427 Broadway. Mr. Cole became affiliated with the Republican party at the time of its organization and remained a steadfast supporter of its principles as long as he lived. He voted for Fremont in 1856 and for Lincoln in 1860. For many years after locating at Toledo he was active in political affairs, but in the latter part of his life he left the active campaign work to younger men, though he maintained his interest in questions of public policy until the last. He was a member of Rubicon Lodge, Free & Accepted Masons, and of Volunteer Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Exposure while in the army undermined his health, and for many years he battled with disease before the end came. A man of great moral courage, high ideals, a tender disposition and the strictest integrity, he made friends by his many sterling qualities, and was held in high esteem by .all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. As a soldier in defense of his country during her darkest hours, when secession sought to lay its slimy hand upon the institutions our forefathers established, his service was such as to entitle his name to a place on the Roll of Honor, among the heroes of the Republic. Julia P. (Macomber) Cole was born in Taunton, Mass., Aug. 22, 1839. After coming to Toledo with her husband, at the close of the war, she became interested in humane work and was a director of the Toledo Humane Society for many years. She early took part in the temperance movement and gaye much of her thought and time to this reform. She also became deeply interested in the woman's suffrage movement, and at the time Of her death was treasurer of the Toledo Woman's Suffrage Association. She was particularly active on the suffrage question in its relation to schools, and always manifested a deep interest in the schools of her own ward. She was also county appointee on the yisiting committee of the Miami Children's Home. and was recognized as one of Toledo's prominent women. Her death occurred on Sept. 8, 1908. She was a sister to Albert E. Macomber of Toledo. Of the children born to Abner B. and Julia P. (Macomber) Cole, two sons and one daughter are now liying. William E. is the eldest of the surviving children ; C. Walter Cole is assistant cashier of the Second National Bank of Toledo, and the daughter is Mrs. Louise 3. McIntosh, of 410 Victoria Place, Toledo. John Perrin was born in London, England, within sound of Bow Bells, April 10, 1850, son of John and Susanna (Plaskett) Per- BIOGRAPHICAL - 335 rin, the former being a stone contractor who died during his son's early boyhood. Mrs. Perrin re-married, her second husband being George Coles, also a native of England and proprietor of a well-known public-house. John Perrin, the subject of this sketch, was sent to school in England until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he succeeded in obtaining his parents' permission to come to the United States, and he took passage for New York, where he landed in 1864. He obtained employment as cashier in the famous Sweeney's restaurant in New York. at that time a resort of the Fenians and the wealthy Irish families of New York. There he became familiar with the faces of some of the most prominent Irishmen in America. In a little less than two years from the time of his arrival in the United States, Mr. Perrin came to Toledo, where he entered one of the public schools as a student in order to make himself more familiar with the decimal system of United States money. The next year he was employed by W. J. Finlay, the brewer, as bookkeeper, held this position three years, and a similar position with Emerson & Co. one year. He then became interested in western mining prospects and tried his fortunes at Salt Lake City, where he was unsuccessful and lost all his savings within nine months after his arrival. He then obtained a position as settling clerk for the Lake Shore railroad, and returned to his former position as bookkeeper for Emerson & Co., in Toledo, six months later. After eight years with Emerson & Co., Mr. Perrin accepted a position as general bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Toledo, which he filled most efficiently for seven years. Severe rheumatism obliged him to,resign this position and, although the bank kept Mr. Perrin on the pay roll six months in the hope of his return to his desk; he was unable to undertake indoor work, and purchased a farm in Washington township, upon which he worked for the benefit of his health. The out-of-door life restored Mr. Perrin to a considerable degree of health and he returned to Toledo as a public consulting accountant. At this time he was appointed by the Democrats of Toledo to examine the books of the city as an expert accountant, the late Martin Freidburg being his colleague in this work, appointed by the Republicans. In 1896. Mr. Perrin was appointed superintendent and clerk of the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, which office he now holds ; he has introduced many improvements in the routine of the office and fills the position most acceptably. Mr. Perrin rents his farm in Washington township, where he is the owner of forty acres, and also owns considerable real estate in Toledo. He is a supporter of the Democratic national policies, but is not allied with the local Democratic organization. He was a stanch supporter and warm personal friend of Frank Hurd. During the life of Judge Potter, in the early days when Toledo boasted but one precinct, Mr. Perrin was clerk of the polls. He is a member of the National Union, the National Association of Cemetery Superintendents, and the Ohio Association of Cemetery Superintendents ; he has served one term as president of the last named organization. Mr. Perrin is a devout member of Trinity Episcopal Church and a constant worshiper at its services. In his boyhood he was a choir- 336 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY boy in Marchmont's Church in London, where Frederick Archer, afterward the world's greatest organist, led the choir. Mr. Perrin was united in marriage, in 1872, to Miss Diana Dayies, who was born and educated in Wales and was acquainted with her future husband before either of them came to the United States. The marriage was celebrated in Salt Lake City during Mr. Perrin's residence there. They are the parents of three children : Phoebe E. is now Mrs. Ralph W. Schutt of Toledo; Mrs. Frank Gandall is the wife of the manager of the Craig Confectionery Company, of Indianapolis ; and John George is manager, superintendent and chief engineer of the Lozier Automobile Company, of Plattsburg. N. Y. The three children were born in Toledo and "were graduated in the high school there. Mr. and Mrs. Perrin reside in the charming home maintained by the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, at 1540 West Central avenue, connecting with the grounds, and Mr. Perrin occupies a well-appointed office at the entrance of the cemetery. Woodlawn coyers a large tract of beautifully situated park and grove and is one of the prettiest spots in the city. J. Pressley Lyle, M. D., a well known and influential member of the medical profession in Toledo, with offices in the Spitzer Building; for thirty-five years engaged in the drug business. in connection with his work as a practitioner ; one of the promoters of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association ; one of the original petitioner's for the Ohio pharmacy laws; founder and organizer of the fraternal order of "Love, Light and Truth"; and a prominent figure in fraternal circles, is a native of the old Keystone State, having first beheld the light of day in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1850. His paternal grandparents, Joseph and Jenette (McNary) Lyle, were also natives of the above State and passed to their reward in Washington county, Pennsylyania, the grandfather attaining the age of eighty-three years. The maternal grandparents, Robert and Ann (Lyle) Simpson, were also born in Pennsylyania, in Washington county, and there they continued to make their residence throughout their lives. Dr. Lyle's parents, John and Sarah Jane (Simpson) Lyle, were born in the above county, the birth of the former occurring April 21. 1821, and that of the latter on July 19 of the same year. The father was a farmer bv occupation, and though in early manhood he was a Democrat in political matters in later life he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party, of which he was a staunch adherent up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1907, in his eighty-sixth year. His widow, who is now eighty-eight years of age, resides in Jefferson county, Ohio. For more than half a century she has been a loyal member of the Presbyterian church, in which her husband was an elder for some fifty years. Their marital union was blessed with the birth of eight children, seven of whom are now liying—five sons and two daughters. Dr. Lyle was reared in his native' county, and his earliest educational advantages were those afforded in the public schools of Pennsylvania. He then attended the McNeely Normal College at Hopedale. Harrison county, Ohio, and later Richmond College, at Richmond, Jefferson countv, Ohio, pre- BIOGRAPHICAL - 337 paratory to entering Columbus Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, where he received his degree as Doctor of Medicine as a member of the class of 1882. He then went to Pittsburg, in his native State, where for three years he was interne in Passavant Hospital and for one year was associated with the wholesale drug firm of J. H. Henderson & Brothers. He was one of the first members of the Alleghanv County Medical Association and was the first solicitor for the Pittsburg "Medical Journal." Dr. Lyle first engaged in the practice of medicine at Unionport, Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1882, and remained there until 1891, when he removed to Cleyeland, Ohio, where, during the ensuing year, he was engaged as a pharmacist in the employ of a large drug concern, after which he took up his residence in Toledo, in 1892, where he has been engaged in the practice of medicine ever since and has developed an extensive and lucrative practice and attained an enviable reputation as a diagnostician. He is an honorary member of the Alleghany County Medical Association at Pittsburg, Pa., and while a resident of Unionport, Ohio. was an active member of the Jefferson County Medical Association. Fraternally the doctor has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1876: the Knights of Pvthias since 1882 ; the Knights and Ladies of Columbia since 1895 ; the Order of Chosen Friends since 1897; the Tribe of Ben Hur since 1898 ; the Order of Love, Light and Truth, which he organized in 1903 ; the Protected Home Circle ; and he is the Supreme Deputy Grand Riboni of the Order of the Philosophy of the Living Fire, in the State of Ohio, which position is the highest rank attainable. He is a local examining physician for all of the above orders. In political matters Dr. Lyle seryed as a committeeman with the Republican party for oyer twenty-five years, and is yet a Republican in his views ; but he is actuated by a desire to promote the public weal and casts his ballot for the candidate, who, in his best judgment. is the best qualified to discharge the duties of the office he seeks. Consequently he is not wedded to party idols and controlled by partisanship, but exercises the right of suf- frage as a free man should—candidly, fearlessly and intelligently. In regard to religion, he is also liberal and broad minded and is not affiliated with any denomination in particular, though his conduct has ever been actuated by the highest of moral standards, and he is a firm believer in the doctrine of the universal brotherhood of man, as is best evinced in his founding of the Order of Love, Light and Truth. On May 30. 1875, he was happily united in marriage to Miss Ellen Shoemaker, a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, and of this union have been born two children—Georgia and Bessie. Hugh Cook Hotchkiss, deceased, for many years a prominent and influential figure in commercial circles in Toledo, was a product of the Wolverine State and her institutions, his birth haying occurred on a farm in Whiteford township. Monroe county. Michigan, Oct. 15. 1867. The parents, Arthur and Laura P. (Hathaway) Hotchkiss, the former a native of Ashtabula. Ohio. and the latter of New York State. are still residents of Sylvania, Ohio, where the father was for many years a follower of agricultural pursuits, though 338 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY he is now living retired. They were the parents of nine children, only five of whom attained to maturity : namely, Hugh Cook, of this memoir, and Howard, a farmer of Bedford township, Monroe county, Michigan, who are twins ; William, who is also engaged in farming in Monroe county ; Laura, deceased, who was a twin of William; and Anna, who is the wife of William Vesey, of Monroe County. Hugh C.. Hotchkiss was reared on his father's farm in his native county and secured his early educational training in the district schools in the neighborhood. Later he attended the Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti, after which he taught school in Monroe county, Michigan, and then remoyed to Toledo, where he read law in the office of Attorney C. E. Sumner, in 1888-89. He then commenced his active business career as an employe of Parmelee & Crosby, dealers in agricultural implements, with whom he remained for about two years, after which he became associated with Merrill Brothers in the same line of business, and he continued with this firm for about six years, when Mr. Merrill went into bankruptcy. Mr. Hotchkiss then purchased the business and soon placed it on a sound and substantial basis, continuing therein until his death, March 20, 1908, when only forty years of age. His business career was active and honorable at all times. He was guided by quick decisions, cool and unerring judgment, undaunted courage, confidence in his own ability, firmness, and above all an unflinching honesty and a strict adherence to correct business principles. The best efforts of his life were devoted to the development of a business which would yield him a fair return on his investment and at the same time gratify the wants of his many patrons and render general satisfaction to all concerned. While he worked for his own financial profit, he was not unmindful of the public welfare, and Lucas county can boast of no more loyal and public-spirited citizen, no one more profoundly interested in the general prosperity than was Hugh C. Hotchkiss. He has departed this life, but his memory will long remain with- those in whose midst he lived and labored, and will never pass from the affection and respect of those who love and revere goodness. On Oct. 17, 1894, Mr. Hotchkiss was united in marriage to Miss Cora Frances Janney, and beside his bereaved widow he left to mourn his untimely passing five children—three sons and two daughters, namely : Ellwood j., Lawrence, Esther May, Allen Hathaway and Anna Laura, all of whom live with their mother at the old home. at 2360 Hollywood avenue. . Mrs. Hotchkiss is a daughter of Ellwood and Almeda L. (Allen) Janney, the former of whom was born in Bucks county, Pennsvlvania, and died Sept. 21, 1887, and the latter first beheld the light of day in Michigan, and is still living on the old homestead in Monroe county, that State. Ellwood Janney was reared and educated in his native State and in early manhood migrated to Michigan, where he was actively engaged in farming up to the time of his death. He was a gallant soldier in the Ciyil war, enlisting in the Eighteenth Michigan infantry, in 1861, as a priyate, and serving for three years, winning a second lieutenant's commission by his meritorious work, and being mustered out with that rank. BIOGRAPHICAL - 339 Charles S. Northup, one of the prominent members of the Lucas county bar, and president of the Toledo Bar Association, is a native of Michigan, his birth having occurred, Nov. 12, 1868, at Lexington, Sanilac county. He is the son of Dr. Myron and Anna A. (Herson) Northup, the former of whom was -born in Steuben county, New York, and the latter in Canada, and their marriage occurred in Florence, in the province of Ontario. The father, Dr. Myron Northup, was a physician and surgeon who, from 1871 until the time of his death, March 15, 1903, resided in Port Huron, Mich. During the Ciyil war he was one of the corps of surgeons of the Union army and for twenty years served as president of the St. Clair County Medical Association. He also filled the office of mayor of Port Huron for several terms and, during the ten years just prior to his death, was supreme medical examiner for the Knights of the Modern Maccabees. Two children were born to the parents, the elder of whom, Mrs. Lincoln Avery, now makes her home in Port Huron. Charles S. Northup, to whom this review is dedicated, is of the seventh generation of a family which originally came from Connecticut. He received his early educational training in the schools of Port Huron, and then matriculated in the literary department of the University of Michigan. Before completing his course in that department, however, he entered the College of Law, and in 1889 he was granted the degree of Bachelor of Laws by the regents of the institution. Soon afterward Mr. Northup began his professional practice at Port Huron, in partnership with Hon. O'Brien O'Donnell, now judge of probate in Lucas county. In June, 1896, he came to Toledo to enter a partnership with Samuel Kohn in the January following, and since that time the firm of Kohn & Northup has been recognized as one of the most talented legal concerns in the city. In the matter of politics Mr. Northup is a stanch supporter of the men and measures of the Republican party in national affairs, but is politically independent in local affairs. From 1899 to 1903 he served the city as assistant city solicitor. In 1905 he was elected city solicitor, a position which he still holds. He is also interested in educational matters and from 1903 to 1905 was a member of the board of directors of Toledo University. Mr. Northup's wife was formerly Miss Delia Bachelder, a daughter of David Bachelder, of Gallion. Ohio, and a graduate of Lake Erie Seminary in the class of 1893. To Mr. and Mrs. Northup was born, Sept. 18, 1903. a daughter, Kathryn Marie by name. The Northup home is at 3248 Collingwood avenue. Leroy E. Clark merits recognition on the pages of this publication by reason of being one of the substantial citizens of the city of Toledo and Lucas county, where the major portion of his life has been passed and whence he went forth as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. Mr. Clark was born in Mount Vernon. Ohio, Noy. 6, 1846, the son of Silmon S. and Vashti A. (Samson) Clark, the latter of whom was born in Licking county, Ohio, and the marriage of these honored parents took place in Medina county. The father received his early education in the district schools and in his youth aspired to a military career. With that end 340 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY in view he entered the lists as a candidate for appointment to a cadetship at West Point, there being a vacancy from his Congressional district at the time, but he did not secure the coveted position, his successful rival being William S. Rosecrans, who afterward became a famous general of the Union army in the Civil war. Disappointed in his ambition for a military life, Silmon S. Clark learned the trade of a printer. He remoyed to Perrysburg, Wood county, in 1850, and soon thereafter purchased the "Fort Meigs Reveille and Star," a Democratic paper. He changed its political allegiance to the Whig party and in 1853 became the publisher of the "Perrysburg Journal," a paper that he founded and named. The old hand press which he used in its publication may still be seen in the "Journal" office. :NIT. Clark conducted this paper and was a faithful devotee of the "art preservative of all arts" until his untimely demise, which occurred in 1859. His wife survived him a great many years and died in Maumee at the advanced age of seventy-six. Of their marital union there were born five children, of whom two died in childhood, and of the three who reached maturity but two are now living. he whose name introduces this review and a brother—Charles W.—who resides in Carroll county, Indiana. Leroy E. Clark received his scholastic training in the schools of Perrysburg and Maumee. but at the age when boys are usually considered dependent upon, the care of their parents he forsook the peaceful haunts of his boyhood and marched forth in martial array to assist in the defense of his country's flag against a sectional uprising. In May, 1862, although but six months past fifteen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company K of the Eighty-fourth Ohio infantrv, to serye for three months, and on June 11 was ordered, with his regiment, to Cumberland, Md., where, with the command he was employed in preyenting transportation of supplies into the Confederate lines. In September the regiment was ordered to New Creek, W. Va., Where an attack by Conferedate forces was anticipated, but the enemy retired without making a demonstration, and the regiment was ordered to Camp Chase, Ohio, for muster-out. It was ordered from Camp Chase to Camp Delaware, where it was mustered out on Sept. 20, 1862, after having seryed about a month longer than its term of enlistment. Early in February. 1864, Mr. Clark again tendered his seryices to his country, and enlisting in the yeteran Fourteenth Ohio infantry he accompanied the re-enlisted men and recruits and joined the army at Ringgold, Ga., commencing at once that long, fatiguing campaign for the possession of Atlanta, the "gate city" of the South. In all the marches and the almost incessant skirmishes and flanking movements of that campaign he bore an honorable part, and in that heroic charge at Jonesboro, where the gallant Fourteenth took nearly as many prisoners as the regiment numbered men, Mr. Clark fell desperately wounded, as the result of which the amputation of his left arm was necessary. Thus rendered incapable of further military service, in due time he received an honorable discharge and returned home, maimed for life, but with the consciousness of BIOGRAPHICAL - 241 having performed his patriotic duty when his country was in need. And republics are not always ungrateful. Soon after the close of the war, Mr. Clark received the appointment as postmaster at Maumee and officiated in that capacity for nearly five years, at the end of which period he removed to Toledo and accepted the appointment as deputy internal reyenue collector, under Joseph R. Swigart. He continued to serve in the same capacity in the administrations of Clark Waggoner, John F. Kumler, George L. Johnson, George B. Waldorf, and George W. Hull, the entire period of his incumbency being twenty years and nine months. At the end of this long service as deputy reyenue collector. he took up an official residence in the court-house, having been elected to the position of Clerk of Courts of Lucas county, and by re-election filled that office for two terms, a period of six nears. At the present time he is officiating as the secretary of the Lucas County Agricultural Sociey. In politics he is an uncompromiing Republican ; fraternally he is a member of Toledo Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and of the National Union, in which he is a member of the Ideal Council ; and his religious faith is expressed by membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. On Nov. 6, 1872, Mr. Clark was married to Miss Elizabeth R. Neville, daughter of John Neville, of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where Mrs. Clark was born and reared, her parents being natives of England. Of this marital union there is one son, Allyn N., born in Maumee, April 24, 1874, who now lives in Bay City, Mich., where he has a responsible position with the Bay City Electric & Gas Company. He is married to Miss Mary, daughter of Charles E. Howe, of Toledo. Charles W. Meck, who has attained prominence as a member of the Lucas county bar, was born in Bucyrus, Crawford county, Ohio. Tan. 14, 1867. He is of German descent, his parents, John Frederick and Christina (Schiefer) Meck, having been born in Germany. The mother, who now lives retired at Chatfield, Crawford county, Ohio, came to America with her parents when she was but fifteen months old. The father was thirty yeal s of age before he left his native land, and during his life in this country devoted himself to agricultural pursuits entirely. His death occurred in 1898. Eleven children were born to the parents, and ten of these survive. Charles W. Meck, the subject of this sketch, was the tenth child in order of birth, and until he had reached his seventeenth year lived with his parents on the farm. His preparatory educational training was received at Ada, Where he finished a classical course before entering the Department of Law at the Ohio State University, where he was granted the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1894. In August of the same year he began his professional practice in Toledo and developed, by his ability and learning. an excellent clientage. In 1898 he was elected judge of the city court, a position he held for five years. Following that seryice he acted as assistant city solicitor under Ulysses G. Denman, attending to the labors of prosecuting in the police court. In March, 1905, he again took up his private practice and has since had offices in rooms 557 and 559 Spitzer Building. In politics 342 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY Mr. Meck is a stanch supporter of the Republican party and its principles. Fraternally and socially he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, the National Union, the North American Union, the German Central Band and the Lincoln Republican Club. On Oct. 13, 1895, was celebrated Mr. Meck's marriage to Miss Della Coons, a daughter of Daniel Coons, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Meck have no children. Their borne is at 1111 Collingwood avenue. James E. Rundell, a member of the old established and Well known firm of W. A. Rundell & rain dealers, with offices at 33 Produce Exchange, was born at Co., Oswego, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1863. His father, William A. Rundell, was born at Fulton, N. Y., June 23, 1831; followed the grain and milling business at Oswego, N. Y., for over thirty years ; came to Toledo in the spring of 1877 and founded the firm of W. A. Rundell & Co., and died in Toledo, Jan. 2, 1894, his wife haying died March 18, 1880. The story of William A. Rundell's life can probably be best told in a few words by quoting the market report of the Produce Exchange for Jan. 3, 1894: "This Exchange is again called upon to announce the death of one of its members, William A. Rundell, who died at his residence in this city yesterday. Mr. Rundell was born at Fulton, N. Y., in 1831. A large portion of his business life was passed at Oswego, N. Y., in flour manufacturing and the grain commission business, where the management of leading and highly respectable firms reflected the highest credit upon his character as a capable and honest merchant. In May, 1877, he removed to Toledo and became a member of the Toledo Produce Exchange and engaged in the grain commerce of our city. In his intercourse with his fellow members and the citizens of Toledo, no one has been more conspicuous than our deceased friend, for uprightness and fairness in dealings, or in contributing of his time and thought for the interest of our Exchange. Mr. Rundell was a courtly and genial gentleman of unspotted character, and of moral endowments of a high order. All who knew him well were sincerely attached to him. Our friend had been in broken and gradually failing health for months, and with patience, Christian hope and courage, had steadily faced the approach of the great conqueror of all men." James E. Rundell came with his parents to Toledo when he was but twelve years of age, and he received the greater part of his education in the Toledo schools. His brother, Frederick W., who was born at Oswego, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1861, graduated at the Toledo high school with the class of 1880, and the two brothers are now associated in the business their father established in 1877, retaining the old firm name of W. A. Rundell & Co. They both belong to the Produce Exchange, of which James E. Rundell was president in 1901. Politically, Mr. Rundell is a Republican, though he is not an active politician. He belongs to the Toledo Club and the Countrv Club, in both of which he is deservedly popular. On April 28, 1892, Mr. Rundell and Miss May Coghlin were united in marriage, and they have one son, Edwald C., born July 19, 1895. Mrs. Rundell is a daughter of the late Dennis Coghlin, who for many years was BIOGRAPHICAL - 343 a prominent figure in Toledo business circles. Mr. Rundell resides at the corner of Jefferson and Sixteenth streets, and his office is at No. 33 Produce Exchange. John Corydon Jones, a prominent and influential member of the legal fraternity in Lucas county, with offices in the Spitzer Building, Toledo, and in Sylvania ; a member of the house of representatives during the seventy-fifth and seventy-sixth sessions of the General Assembly ; at the present time mayor of Sylvania, and a conspicuous figure in educational, fraternal and political circles of the county, first beheld the light of day in Milford township, Knox county, April 9, 1857. His father, Basil Jones, was born in Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1826, and today, at the advanced age of eighty-three, he is living retired in Saint Louisville, Licking county, Ohio. The mother, Isabelle (Evans) Jones, was born in Newton township, Licking county, Ohio, in 1835, and received her summons to the life eternal, Aug. 19, 1838. Though John C. Jones was born in Knox county, his boyhood days and early manhood were passed in Licking county, where he acquired his primary educational training in the public schools, after which he secured a teacher's certificate and, in 1874, when but seventeen years of age, commenced teaching school in Licking county during the winter months and pursuing a course of study in the Normal School at Utica, in that county, during the spring and fall terms. He was graduated at the last named school June 3, 1881, and during the following four years taught school in Licking county. In the fall of 1886 he became superintendent of the public schools in Sylvania, this county. in which capacity he continued to officiate for five years, in the meantime applying himself to the study of law, under the able direction of the Hon. J. Kent Hamilton and the late J. D. Ford, of Toledo, and on Oct. 5, 1892, Mr. Jones passed a successful examination before the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio and was admitted to the bar. He then entered upon the practice of the legal profession, establishing an office in Sylvania and associating himself with the Hon. L. W. Morris in the Spitzer Building, Toledo, and he has since been actively engaged in practice. His professional career has been characterized by a marked success and he enjoys the esteem of his legal brethren, his many clients and all with whom he is brought in contact, being recognized as an able, conscientious, fearless and high minded practitioner. In politics Mr. Jones has always been a loyal adherent of the Republican party, yet he numbers among his wide circle of friends many Democrats. He is a prominent figure in the political arena of the county and is always ready to do his part toward achieving a triumphant Republican victory. In November, 1901, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, and two years later was re-elected thereto, receiving the highest vote cast for any candidate on the victorious Republican ticket, which tells the story better than words of his popularity in the community, and of the confidence reposed in him by his friends and neighbors, who know him best. In the fall of 1907 he was elected mayor of Sylvania on the 344 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY Republican ticket. In public office, as in his professional career. his labors have ever been marked by a strict adherence to correct business principles, an uncompromising fidelity to the interests of those entrusting him with their affairs, and a conscientious, intelligent performance of duty. Fraternally, Mr. Jones is admirably affiliated, being a member of Sylvania Lodge, No. 281, Free and Accepted Masons, in. which he occupies the exalted office of Worshipful Master ; Enterprise Tent, No. 138, Knights of the Maccabees, in which he is Commander ; the Beneyolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which he is also a prominent figure ; and the Modern Woodmen of America. He has always taken a profound interest in educational affairs, for ten. years was a member of Lucas county Board of School Examiners. and for six years pr, -dent of the school board of Sylvania. On Christmas Eye, in the year 1885, Mr. Jones was happily united in marriage to Miss Addie M. Harris, the accomplished daughter of Perry A. and Elizabeth (Myers) Harris, of Saint Louisville. Licking county, Ohio, which union has been blessed by the birth of seven children : namely, Waite D., born Oct. 19, 1886 Hattie Bernice, born Sept. 20, 1889, and died Dec. 9. 1891 ; Bessie B., born Oct. 21, 1891 ; Lucile, born Dec. 14, 1893 ; John C., Jr., born Feb. 11, 1899 ; Ila I., born Nov. 11, 1900; and Ayalene H., born April 24. 1894. Calvin Hamilton Reed, M. D., is one of the older members of the medical fraternity in Toledo, both in point of age and length of time engaged in practice, as he is now in his seventieth year, and his professional life in that city covers a period of some forty-two years. He is a native of Union county, Ohio, and was born Nov. 20, 1840, a son of George and Martha (Morgan) Reed, the former of whom was also a native of the above county, having been born Aug. 21, 1809, and the latter haying first beheld the light of day in the State of Maryland, March 21,1822. The paternal grandfather, Samuel Reed, a native of the old Keystone State, was one of the pioneer settlers in Union county, Ohio, having located in Union township of that county in 1800. There he continued to follow agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his career, and there his death occurred. His good wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Lecky, was also a native of Pennsylvania, and she too passed to the life eternal in Union county, Ohio. Dr. Reed's maternal grandparents were William and Phoebe (Campbell) Morgan, and the latter years of their lives were spent in the State of Maryland, where they passed to their reward, leaving their youngest daughter, Martha Hamilton, to be reared by a relative, "Uncle" Robert Nelson. The father of Dr. Reed was a farmer by occupation, a staunch Republican in his political conyictions, and he and his beloved wife were, for many years, devout and active members of the Presbyterian church at Milford Centre. They lived exemplary Christian lives, and were held in high regard by all who knew them. Of their marital union seyen children were born, of whom but two are now living. the Doctor and a sister. George Reed passed away in Toledo, in 1890, in the eighty-first year of his life, leaving to posterity a clean record as a farmer, a citizen BIOGRAPHICAL - 345 and as a man. His good wife preceded him to the rest eternal by thirty years, her death having occurred Feb. 29, 1860. Dr. Reed was reared on the parental homestead and his early education was received in the public schools of Union county, Ohio, and in an academy in Marysville. in the same county. On June 3, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company E, Eighty-sixth Ohio infantry, in which he attained to the rank of corporal. He -was honorably discharged from the service, Sept. 25, 1862. He attended college at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, for about three vears, teaching school winters for some time. But as his aspirations were in a different direction, as soon as he could do so, in the private office of Prof. J. W. Hamilton, M. D., at Columbus, Ohio, he commenced preparation for the practice of his profession, graduating in Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, as a member of the class of 1868, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He immediately went to Toledo, where he established offices on the east corner of St. Clair and Logan streets, and has since been engaged in active practice in that city, where he has developed an extensive and lucrative practice, which now extends beyond the boundaries of Toledo and Lucas county. His professional career has been characterized by a marked success from its beginning, and he is held in high esteem by his brother practitioners, his multitude of patients, and by all with whom he is brought in contact, as a capable, progressive and conscientious physician and surgeon. His life has been one of honest, persistent endeavor, and as a result of a faithful adherence to right, conscientious devotion to duty and loyalty to his own manhood, he sees the evening of his days crowned with a most satisfactory success and prestige, and the respect. honor and esteem of all his associates. Dr. Reed holds membership in the Toledo Academy of Medicine, the American, Ohio State and Northwestern Ohio Medical associations; and in the Free & Accepted Masons, and in the Knights of Pythias. In his political convictions, devoutly believing in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people ; and, realizing that such a government is possible only through the abolishment of every special privilege, and this by equal or government ownership, he is a Socialist, which .fact, plainer than words, tells the story of his profound interest in and his laudable desire for the uplift of humanity. Though he has never fostered aspirations for a public career, he served his city six years as a member of the school board. In his religious belief, while not a stickler about creeds, he adheres to the church of his honored parents and is an active member of the Third Presbyterian Church of Toledo. On June 9, 1869, Dr. Reed was happily united in holy wedlock to Miss Emma Bithiah Smythe, a native of Columbus, Ohio, and a daughter of Henry P. and Sarah K. (Harris) Smythe, the latter of whom is a daughter of Timothy and Bithiah (Linnel) Harris. Of the union of Dr. Reed and wife have been born five children, namely : Morgan Smythe ; Harris Hamilton, deceased ; Chase Campbell ; Carl Kirkley, deceased ; and Lynnel (Linnel) Lecky. 346 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY George Fitch Wells, a prominent attorney and counsellor-at-law in the city of Toledo, is a native of the Hawkeye State, born at Garner, Hancock county, May 23, 1872, a son of William C. and Eliza B. Wells. He is descended from good old New England stock, his great-great-grandfather, on the paternal side of the family, having immigrated to America some time prior to 1764; and his maternal great-great-grandfather, Ebenezer Fitch, was the first president of Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass., one of the oldest of the higher educational institutions in the country. A number of the direct descendants of his mother have also officiated as pastors of Congregational churches in the New England and other States of the Union, and others have been college professors. Before the completion of his elementary educational training, George Fitch Wells, of this reyiew, was employed for several years in newspaper offices in Iowa, where he acquired much valuable experience and education. His collegiate training was attained at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., and at Oberlin College, Ohio. where he also acted as college reporter and correspondent for the Chicago "Inter-Ocean." Haying at an early age determined upon the legal profession as his life's yocation, he matriculated in the Law Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he graduated in June, 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Later he opened a law office in the city of Toledo, where he has since continued in the successful practice of his profession. Mr. Wells is a member of the Republican party, though he is not a "dyed-in-the-wool" party man, belieying in voting for the best interests of the community regardless of party affiliations ; and he belongs to the Congregational church. On Dec. 25, 1893, a little oyer six months after receiving his degree in law, he was united in matrimony to Miss Grace Gillette, of Toledo, of which marital union one child has been born—William Gillette. Frederick Henry Bargy, one of the best known vocalists of Toledo and now director of music in the Norwood Ayenue Church of Christ, was born in Oswego county, New York, Sept. 20, 1860, a son of Henry and Lydia (O'Neil) Bargy, both natives of New York State. the father now deceased. Mrs. Bargy's five brothers seryed in the Union army in the Civil war, and the mother is now living in Newaygo county, Michigan, town of Ashland. The Bargys were old settlers in the State of New York, Frederick Bargy, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, having been the proprietor of a large dairy farm in Oswego county. Frederick H. Bargy is the only surviving child of his parents, and he has had a rather eyentful career. At the age of twelve years he went with his mother to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he attended school for a while, and later moyed to Newaygo county, town of Ashland. In his early life he followed agricultural pursuits, after which he was employed in the lumber woods of Northern Michigan. There he had the misfortune-to lose his hand in a large planing machine, but notwithstanding this disability he worked for a while in furniture factories. As a boy he had developed a taste and talent for music. and being endowed with a yoice far superior to that of BIOGRAPHICAL - 347 most men, he finally decided to turn it to some account. Accordingly, he was for some time on the road as a vocalist with different companies, among which were Crawford Brothers' Minstrels and Hamlin's Wizard Oil Concert Company, advertising through different States. From that he became an evangelist singer, in which he still continues. Having relatives in Toledo, he removed to that city, in 1897, and has since made his home there. His first engagement in Toledo was as leader of the choir in the Monroe Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He also led the chorus of the First Congregational Church during the Moody meetings, when the Rev. Dwight L. Moody, the celebrated evangelist, came to Toledo, after which he was engaged as preceptor of the Coning-wood Presbyterian Church, where he remained for nine years. He was also musical director for the late Samuel M. Jones at his "Golden Rule" park, and was connected with Mayor Jones at intervals until the latter's death. Mr. Bargy is now director of music in his own church—the Norwood Avenue Church of Christ—which is building a nevi house of worship at the corner of Norwood avenue and Ewing street. He is also a member of the male chorus called the "Orpheus Club" and the Ionian Male Quartette. During his long experience in connection with music he has become a skillful performer on several instruments. For three years he was the leader of the Toledo Police Band, and he now plays baritone in the same. His singing is not merely the mechanical utterance of harmonious sounds—a serious weakness of many vocalists—but by his personality and the magnetic power of his yoice he gives an expression and interpretation to his songs that rarelv fail to thrill his hearers. Fraternally he is identified with Toledo Lodge, No. 402, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Garfield Home, No. 25, Home Guards of America. Mr. Bargy is a Republican in his political affiliations. In the winter of 1901 he was appointed superintendent of markets bv Mayor Jones, which position he has held continuously since. This long tenure of office under different city administrations is evidence that he has discharged his duties fearlessly and conscientiously. On June 2. 1886, Mr. Bargy married Mrs. Jessie Elizabeth McKee. nee Bennett, a daughter of Elijah S. Bennett, an old settler of Newaygo. Mich., where for forty years he was a leading merchant and justice of the peace. He died at Newaygo. Nov. 1, 1908. Mrs. Bargy was born in Livingston county, New York. By her first marriage she has a daughter, Grace E., now the wife of Fred W. Riblet, an attorney of Newaygo. To Mr. and Mrs. Bargy have been born two children—Myrtle N. and Roy F.—both born in Newago, Mich., before the family remoyed to Toledo. The daughter passed through the ward schools of Toledo, spent two years in the city high school, and then for two years attended Gregg's Business College at Jersey City, N. J. She is now a stenographer with Spitzer & Co., bankers, in the Spitzer Building, where she has been employed eyer since leaving school. Roy F. is now in his second year in the Toledo High School. The family resides at 1901 Detroit avenue. 348 - MEMOIRS OF LUCAS COUNTY Norval Baldwin Bacon, to whose skill and artistic- ability as an architect many of the substantial office buildings and handsome residences of Toledo now stand as monuments, was born in Hamilton, Madison county, New York, the son of Noryal C. and Janette (Terry) Bacon. The paternal grandfather, Col. Asa Bacon, was born at Charlton. Mass., and in that place was for many Years successfully engaged as a tanner and currier ; his death occurred in 1862 at the age of eighty-five years. The maternal grandparents, Isaac and Betsy (Livermore) Terry. were both natives of the Empire State, the former born in Sangerfield and the latter in -Waterville. Other ancestors of the subject of this review, on both the maternal and paternal sides. were actively engaged in the struggle for independence as soldiers in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war. Mr. Bacon's father, Norval C. Bacon, was born in Massachusetts, in 1805, and. like the grandfather, was engaged as a tanner and currier ; his demise occurred in his seventy-seventh year, at Eaton, N. Y. The mother was born at Sangerfield, Oneida county, New York, in 1808, graduated at the Hamilton Female Seminary and for ten years prior to her marriage had been a teacher. She died at the home of her son, in Toledo, in 1883. Norval B. Bacon, to whom this sketch is dedicated, came west to Tecumseh, Mich., when but nine years of age. After a period of some two years the family returned to their New York home, and in the schools of that vicinity Mr. Bacon received the major part of his educational training. During the latter years of hid study he was a student in an academy, and at the age of nineteen years began to earn his livelihood as a teacher. For a period of several years he followed pedagogic work in Pooleville and other places in New York State, until he was ready to enter Hamilton Academy. Afterward he studied under the able preceptorship of Albert T. Purdv, a famous portrait painter of Ithaca. N. Y.. and from 1868 to 1873 devoted himself assiduously to the study of architecture, in Utica, N. Y., and Boston, Mass. At the end of the above mentioned period he removed west, to Toledo. and in this city has since been most successfully engaged in his chosen profession. In 1882 Mr. Bacon engaged as his assistant, Thomas F. Huber, and within a few vears the latter named gentleman was made a partner in the firm now known as Bacon & Huber. Among the many buildings of which the firm drew the plans and supervised the construction may be mentioned the St. Clair, Blade, Lorenz and the Coghlin office buildings, the Chamber of Commerce, the Blade Printing & Paper Company's Building. the Bee Building, the Pythian Castle. the Toledo Hospital, the Industrial School, and a large number of the most beautiful residences of Toledo. The Spitzer and Nicholas buildings, noteworthy as being the largest and most modern office buildings in the Northwest, were also designed by Bacon & Huber. Fraternally. Mr. Bacon is identified with the Masonic order and the Royal Arcanum, and since 1885 has been one of the prominent members of the Toledo Club. Both he and his wife are members of the -Westminster Presbyterian Church and are devout workers in the society and all its auxiliary BIOGRAPHICAL - 349 branches. In the matter of politics he is independent of party affiliations, and casts his vote for the men and measures which, in his judgment, will best encompass the common good. The first exercise of his right of suffrage was made when he voted for Abraham Lincoln for president. On Sept. 18, 1873, was celebrated Mr. Bacon's marriage to Miss Margaret L. Cleveland, a native of Caldwell, N. J., and the daughter of Rev. Richard and Anna (Neal) Cleveland. Mrs. Bacon comes of a distinguished family, and is one of the five daughters born to her parents, four of whom are living. Two of her brothers served with distinction and bravery during the Civil war, but escaped injury in that terrible internecine struggle only to lose their lives shortly afterward in the burning of the ill-fated steamer "Missouri.” Another brother was the lamented Grover Cleveland, twice president of the United States; and still another renowned relative was the Rev. William Cleveland. Rev. Richard Cleveland, father of Mrs. Bacon. was born in Norwich, Conn., in 1803, and died at Holland Patent, N. Y., in 1833: and his wife. nee Anna Neal. was born in 1804 and passed awav at Holland Patent in 1882. The Cleveland family has ever had a prominent place in the historv of the nation. Lieut. Timothy Cleveland was a soldier in the Continental army during the war of the Revolution and Rev. Aaron Cleveland was an intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin, at whose home he passed away in 1757. Other prominent members of a later date were Gen. Moses Cleveland, the founder of the city of Cleveland, Ohio : William E. Dodge. the philanthropist of New York City: and Bishop A. Cleveland Cole, of Buffalo. N. Y. To Mr. and Mrs. Bacon were born two children. Cleveland F. is now an attorney practicing in New York City, and Janette T. lives with her parents. The Bacon home is in one of the most beautiful residence districts of the city at 2113 Parkwood avenue. Thomas L. Gifford, attorney and counselor-at-law, with offices at Gardner Building, Toledo. was born near Mansfield. Ohio. May 6, 1863. His parents, James and Mary Ann (Hale) Gifford, were both born in England, the father in the county of Kent and the mother in Hertfordshire. The father, who was the youngest in a family of thirteen children, came to the United States in 1857. landing at New York. The mother came over two years later, by way of Canada and the St. Lawrence river, landing at Buffalo, N. Y. They had known each other in the mother country. but were married at Berea, Ohio, near Cleveland and soon after their marriage, located on a farm near Hansfield. where they still make their home. The father at one time owned a large farm, but as his bovs grew up and launched out for themselves he sold a portion of his land. owning at the present time but sixty acres. which he cultivates himself. James and Mary A. (Hale) Gifford became the parents of four sons and two daughters. Both daughters are deceased, and the four sons are : Thomas L.. the subject of this sketch : Edward J., of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, manager of the Northwestern Threshing Company ; William H.. who is an attorney of Mansfield, Ohio, and Charles B:. connected with a collecting agency